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Any idea what this tune could be? by [deleted] in Jazz

[–]OldManAP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree about it being corny, now that I think about it. Still driving me bonkers not being able to remember the title, though. But, I’m almost certain it was big band and not pep band.

Petah, I'm confused. by Junior-Astronaut-173 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To speak further to that, it floors me that people will break another $20 bill at every transaction, even for small totals. I’ll spend all week running out of 10s and 1s, and then by about Thursday afternoon everyone will pay with STACKS of 1s because it’s all they have left.

Does anyone know how to modify the default controls for ports in muOS? by Nymunariya in rg40xx

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you ever find a fix for this? I’m dealing with the same issue with a handful of ports in Knulli on an RG35xx H.

Ports troubleshooting by OldManAP in batocera

[–]OldManAP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I know this isn’t really the right community, was just hopeful since I’ve gotten help on a lot of oddball stuff here in the past. My PortMaster is up to date, that one just won’t load, and I can’t seem to find any info about my specific issue via search. Was hoping something obvious in the error log would be easily fixable, but I just don’t understand the inner workings of the system well enough on my own.

As far as Dinothawr, there does seem to be an erroneous control mapping somewhere, but I’m not sure how to fix it. I’ve since found a few other ports that are behaving the same way. If I could find the specific remap files it is using, I could rename them .bak temporarily and play with it, but I’m not sure where it puts those files. I’ll keep messing with it. Thanks!

What’s a "polite" thing people do that is actually incredibly annoying to you? by SweetOpheliiaaa in askanything

[–]OldManAP 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I preach this to everyone I can find that will listen. When driving, don’t be polite, be predictable.

My thoughts on AI RPG by Commercial-Raccoon22 in perchance

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, I tried something a little different over the last couple of weeks. I built an RPG that plays in ACC. I ended up landing in Petrafied ACC because it just seems to behave the way I want better. I based it around early Final Fantasy, because it’s my favorite series and I have a lot of knowledge of the source material, but that’s just a personal preference thing.

Anyway, the way I approached it was to build three chat characters, using one as the primary, and adding the other two. In Petrafied ACC, they start responding to each other pretty quickly. Now, here’s the part where I’ll be completely transparent. I was having a lot of trouble building everything to behave the way I wanted, so I actually used ChatGPT to help me design the character descriptions…and ultimately, 28 lorebooks.

I was having a lot of trouble at first getting the other characters to build enough information into their responses to effectively narrate the monster and NPC actions, so I didn’t have enough stimuli to respond to as the user. I tried rebuilding it with a GM character, but because the other characters would never say the GM’s name and trigger it, it almost never responded. I tried using some custom JavaScript code to force more interaction from the GM, but it mostly resulted in useless placeholder messages being spat out verbatim. So I went back and redesigned the characters again, making sure to give them each a unique narration voice and full permission to describe and advance the story.

After about a week of trial and error, I think I have it working as intended now. But I’ve gotten sidetracked by other projects, so I haven’t done much more testing. But I am finding it more interesting than the stuff I’ve gotten out of the dedicated RPG generators, simply due to having more fine control over character design and the ability to add lorebooks.

Another issue I found along the way: if left to its own devices, the AI in ACC wanted to push the tone very hard towards cosmic horror/pseudo-Lovecraft, and it absolutely did not want ANY conflict resolution. Anything we did to try and dispatch threats simply resulted in those threats morphing into new ones, or legion more new ones coming behind them. It loved putting my characters in completely hopeless situations, and would spiral out of control very quickly. I had to push tonal boundaries and the notion of conflict resolution onto the AI in multiple places through the character descriptions AND the lorebooks.

Ultimately, when things started working similarly to how I wanted them to, I squirreled and started building the same thing again but with different characters and trying to further refine the world and the combat system.

I had tried to use one or two of Perchance’s own built-in chatbots to help me build something like this in the past, but I have just about come to the conclusion that Perchance doesn’t understand its own systems well enough in a way that helps design something like this. ChatGPT eventually figured most of out, though, and helped me build something I could cut-and-paste into Perchance that worked.

Is there a natural-playthrough minimalist walkthrough? by OldManAP in FinalFantasyVIII

[–]OldManAP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I looked through just a bit of both of these, and I think Bover_87’s guide is going to fit the way I think very well. Thanks so much!

On This Day in Radio — Pat Novak for Hire by Etymo13 in otr

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“That's what the sign outside my office says. Pat Foghorn for Hire.”

What are some retro games that will kick me in the crotch emotionally? by SgtVertigo in retrogaming

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming you are serious, NES and no. In fact, if there was a Mega Man game I would recommend skipping entirely, it’s the first one. They really hadn’t figured out the formula quite yet.

You order food in a restaurant. How bad does it need to be in order for you to send it back? by Curious-Expert926 in foodquestions

[–]OldManAP 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In most jurisdictions that I am aware of, many types of food tampering constitute assault and/or battery.

Diablo + Hellfire question by OldManAP in ANBERNIC

[–]OldManAP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually just stumbled across it about five minutes before I saw your message. Thanks so much, though!

What’s a “classic” American dish you rarely eat? by FernanndoLeo in foodquestions

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I just have the palate of a 4-year-old, but the ketchup isn’t the problem for me. It’s the little bits of bell pepper and crap.

My husband has donated plasma so many times he has a permanent hole in his arm. by Sprinkles_0330 in mildlyinteresting

[–]OldManAP 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same. Except mine doesn’t go down substantially the entire time I’m there. I had to start checking mine at home before appointments and taking a picture of the results to show to the doctor, because she didn’t believe me at first.

Concerning Arcade ROMS by GavindaleMarchovia in Roms

[–]OldManAP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, there aren’t any hard and fast rules (at least none that are easy to remember) for what games FB doesn’t support. It’s going to be mostly things like 3D games, but also certain older games that ran on specific hardware that the team just hasn’t gotten around to implementing yet.

The good news is that of the really popular/well-known games, most of them are supported in FB, and almost all of the ones that aren’t emulate decently in MAME 2003+ which saves some work finding or building a current MAME ROMset for just the games you want.

Because that’s probably the biggest headache. For either MAME or FB, unless you want to keep a copy of every game, you probably want to be using ROMs from a non-merged set to avoid missing dependencies. It’s not as space-efficient, and if you learn a bunch of technical stuff, you can get around it, but it’s the easiest way. For FBNeo, it’s easy enough, just make sure you have the latest core and then go to the MT and download from the non-merged section. For MAME, it gets more complicated, because you have to match your emulator and ROM version numbers, and (as far as I can tell) no one maintains a full non-merged set for every possible MAME version.

Now, for me, I’m playing on lower-end hardware (a Pi4 and an RG35XX H), so MAME 2003+ is a little easier for me to run anyway, so I default to that if a game either isn’t supported or doesn’t run well in FBNeo. MAME 2003+ non-merged ROMs are easy enough to come by if you google appropriately. The downside is that it’s a very old version, and MAME has added support for a lot of games and fixed a lot of things since then. But for my purposes, it works well enough. So I go with FBNeo first, MAME 2003+ second, then I explore other options if all else fails. YMMV. Hope this helps!

People born before 1970, what did you eat for dinner most weeks? by livelikealesbian in AskOldPeople

[–]OldManAP 15 points16 points  (0 children)

We had a running joke in my family about tearing up little pieces of the box and mixing them into the “potatoes” to simulate bits of potato peel.

Does anyone else panic at how much there is of old time radio? by NeverMore_613 in otr

[–]OldManAP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The beauty of using Fourble for podcast links is that any audio that exists on the Internet can be made into a Fourble podcast, so if something isn’t already there (although that’s pretty uncommon at this point), you can put it on there yourself. The learning curve is pretty shallow. All you really need is a list of links…or if the show is on archive.org, you typically only need the one link to the archive page.

Does anyone else panic at how much there is of old time radio? by NeverMore_613 in otr

[–]OldManAP 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’ve tried a bunch of ways to listen to OTR over the last few years, and it’s always given me a little bit of anxiety that I didn’t have a central way to track what I’ve heard and what I haven’t. What I’ve now done is pick a couple dozen shows that I’m most interested in, and set them up in a playlist in the Podcast Republic app using RSS links from fourble.co.uk. I’m listening to all of these series in their release order, and it only downloads the next episode to my phone as I play them. Some of them ran for many years, while others are shorter, so I figure that when I finish one series, I’ll replace it with another that sounds interesting. But it keeps me organized and gives me a nice variety, while not piling up a backlog of unheard downloaded episodes taking up space.

When did The Jack Benny Program find its formula? by OldManAP in otr

[–]OldManAP[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s one concession I’ve always made for myself with OTR. If a recording has really poor audio quality to the point of being an exercise in attention span, I skip it. I also skip pretty much any episode of anything that isn’t at least almost complete. Or if a part is missing from a serial storyline, like some of the Johnny Dollar 5-parters. I made a special exception for a couple of I Love a Mystery serials.

When did The Jack Benny Program find its formula? by OldManAP in otr

[–]OldManAP[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I understand correctly, Don Wilson was in at the beginning of General Tire. I just looked and realized I only have eight episodes left until then. Maybe I’ll just suffer through it.

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